Yesterday, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for the 2020 plan year. The NBPP is the regulatory framework which CMS uses to operate the federally facilitated marketplace (healthcare.gov). To learn the specifics, you can download the final rules or check out the CMS press release or CMS’s summary […] Read More »

A new report from Families USA addresses the issue of “churning” in the Medicaid program. Churning is when circumstances occur which cause an individual’s eligibility in the Medicaid program to change, such as an individual’s income fluctuating, causing them to go between Medicaid eligibility and eligibility for coverage through the Marketplace. The report from Families […] Read More »

Within the last several months, there have been many new developments in the area of Medicaid expansion. A new tool from the Kaiser Family Foundation looks at the status of states’ decisions on Medicaid expansion. This tool provides the most recent status on what states are doing around Medicaid expansion, especially those which have recently […] Read More »

The American Association on Health & Disability is pleased to announce that we recently updated our Medicaid Social Media Toolkit. As was the case with the prior toolkit, it provides sample social media posts and now divides them into areas highlighting Medicaid facts, impacted populations and benefits. Along with the sample posts are graphics and […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation released a new report at the end of last month which highlights their findings from a survey they conducted of all 50 states on their Medicaid programs. The report is entitled “Medicaid and CHIP Eligibility, Enrollment, and Cost Sharing Policies as of January 2019: Findings from a 50-State Survey”. Read More »

Yesterday, a federal judge struck down the Medicaid work requirements and blocked the continued enforcement of the Medicaid work requirements in both Kentucky and Arkansas. The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) was involved with this litigation and has issued a press release which includes links to the decisions in both the Kentucky and Arkansas cases. Read More »

Yesterday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its report for the 2019 open enrollment period. This report shows that over 11.4 million people have gotten coverage through the health exchanges. To read more about the 2019 open enrollment, check out the CMS fact sheet which includes demographic breakdowns for enrollment. You can […] Read More »

The Kaiser Family Foundation has released an updated brief on the “coverage gap” in states that do not implement the Medicaid expansion under the ACA. Many adults within this gap earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but not enough to qualify for Marketplace premium tax credits. This KFF brief gives estimates of the number […] Read More »

Today marks the 9-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) becoming law. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has a new chartbook which outlines many of the accomplishments of the ACA especially in the areas of reducing uninsured rates across demographic groups. Thursday afternoon, we participated in a Twitter chat with Raising Women’s Voices and […] Read More »